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- Subject: Re: [chrony-users] Best/proper use of orphan mode
- From: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 07:50:36 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 09:00:58AM +0000, Carsten Finis wrote:
> > It's supposed to end up in a stable state using only one source, but
> > it might take a long time. You can speed it up by increasing
> > maxclockerror and reducing the orphan distance.
> >
> > If that doesn't work for you, please post output from chronyc sources
> > and selectdata.
>
> Here's the situation 24 hours after losing the connection to the external NTP server. Host 1 doesn't want to let loose of that server.
> Indeed, that is a stable configuration (if it stays like this), but the actual orphan feature hasn't kicked in - no orphan stratum anywhere.
If you don't decrease the orphan distance and/or increase the clock
error rate, and the estimated skew (as reported in sourcestats) is
small enough, it would take up to 1 million seconds ~ 11 days (default
distance divided by maxclockerror) to activate the orphan mode.
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Miroslav Lichvar
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